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Show •100 MR. E. A. SMITH ON SHELLS FROM ADEN. [June 16, 6. CONUS BETULINUS, Linn. Hab. E. Africa, Isle of Bourbon, Ceylon, Java, China, Philippines. Aden (Caramagna). I do not agree with Tryon1 in considering C. suratensis a variety of this species. 7- CONUS STRIATUS, Linn. Hab. Red Sea, E. Africa, Ceylon, Cochin China, Philippines, Australia, New Caledonia, Viti Islands. Amirantes, Solomon Islands, Island of Annaa (Brit. Mus.). 8. CONUS GENERALIS, var. Hab. Red Sea, Ceylon, E. Africa, Philippines, New Caledonia, &c. C maldivus, Hwass, C. monile, Hwass, and C. bayani, Jousseaume, should, I think, be considered varieties of this species, and C. spiro-gloxus, Deshayes, appears to be the young of it. One of the specimens from Aden is like Reeve's figure of C. monile (Con. Icon. f. 61), but the transverse lines are not interrupted and very much finer and thread-like. A second young example has equally fine lines, but they are interrupted and consequently form series of dots. 9. CONUS ACUMINATUS, Hwass. Hab. Red Sea. C. insignis and C. multicatenatus, Sowerby, belong to this species. The latter is placed by Tryon among the synonyms of C. aplustre, Reeve. Having Sowerby's type in the Museum, I am able to state that it bears no relationship to that species. 10. CONUS VIRGO, var. THOMASI, SOW. Hab. Red Sea, E. Africa, Ceylon, Amboina, Java, Philippines, New Caledonia, Polynesia. Fiji, Tongatabu (Brit. Mus.); Aden (Caramagna). Only the variety (thomasi) is among the Aden shells. 11. CONUS FLAVIDUS, Lamarck. Hab. Red Sea, Persian Gulf, E. Africa, Ceylon, Java, Australia, New Caledonia, Polynesia. Mozambique, Island of Rodriguez, Torres Straits, Solomon Islands, Fiji and Tonga Islands (Brit. Mus.). 12. CONUS INSCRIPTUS, Reeve. Hab., Red Sea. C. keatii, Sowerby, from the Seychelles Islands, which apparently is only a variety of this species, has the spire slightly tabulated and the tops of the whorls have more numerous spiral striae. One of the six specimens from Aden possesses these characteristics. 13. CONUS LINEATUS, Chemnitz. Hab. Red Sea, East Africa, Ceylon, Philippines, Australia, New Caledonia. Andaman Is. (Brit. Mus.). 1 Man. Conch, vol. vi. p. 16. |
